A Primer on Dosage Form Design

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the design of dosage forms, design of controlled and sustained administration of therapeutic agents, with a total integration of basic concepts and application of fundamental principles of pre-formulation studies.

It is divided into seven chapters, ranging from pre-formulation studies and its principle factors used in the design of dosage forms to the validation methods, standard operating procedures, new product launch, process optimization, bio-availability, in-vivo evaluation are discussed in detail.

Salient Features:

• Written in simple, concise, and easy to understand language
• Simple and self-explanatory figures have been judiciously added wherever necessary
• All recent references have been consulted for various topics to keep the students updated with the latest advancement.
• Each topic has been covered in a very systematic and comprehensive manner
• Provides a wide knowledge and information on stability testing and studies of its protocols in a very concise manner.

Narendra Pratap Singh Sengar has multifaceted experience in pharmacy field through industry, teaching, consultancy and authorship of books. He joined teaching profession in pharmacy in 2001. Since then, he has served the profession all-round constantly. Presently, he is working as a Professor in SIRT - Pharmacy, Bhopal. He did M.Pharm (Gold Medal) from RGUH University, Bangalore. He has been awarded Ph.D from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He has published 8 research papers in various International/National journals and has also attended various International/National Seminars/Conferences as well.

Ashwini Singh has completed B. Pharmacy from RGPV, Bhopal (M.P) and M. Pharm (Pharmacognocy) from Department of Pharmacy, Barkatullah University, Bhopal (M.P). she has more than 3 years of teaching experience.

Ritesh Agrawal has completed B. Pharmacy from RGPV, Bhopal (M.P) and M. Pharm (Herbal Drug Technology) from The M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara (Gujarat). He has more than 4 years of teaching experience.